The Fifth Petal : A Novel of Salem (Paperback)

from mnm123

I recieved this book in exchange for a review. I truly love Brunonia Barry. I started to read this book and discovered that The Lace Reader is an introduction to the characters involved in the story The Fifth Petal. I read The Lace Reader and I'm glad I did. The characters involved in both storie...

from readafew

I very much enjoyed reading this book, It takes place in Salem Massachusetts where witches like to gather for Halloween. This Halloween, a teenage thug wannabe dies mysteriously when confronting Rose Whelan, a well known homeless lady. She cracked about 25 years previously when her young charges ...

from indygo88

As with Barry's previous novels, this one is set in Salem, Massachusettes and would probably be considered a companion novel to the others, with a few recurring characters but with storylines not really relating to one another. In The Fifth Petal, the novel opens with the somewhat mysterious deat...

from MaureenCean

Thanks to Library Thing for the ARC. Really a 3.5 for me. I agree with another reviewer who stated that even though a number of the same characters appear in this book as in her previous work, The Lace Reader, it is not necessary to have read that first, just a little bonus. The author's love for...

from VavaViolet

Rose Whelan was once a respected historian, but after witnessing the so called Goddess murders, she was never the same. Her peculiar behavior and eccentricities only fuelled the suspicions of some Salem residents who believes she murdered 3 women years ago, the women known as Goddesses. So when a...